NDLI: SuperWeb: towards a global Web-based parallel computing infrastructure

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Alexandrov, A.D. Ibel, M. Schauser, K.E. Scheiman, C.J.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Alexandrov, A.D.)
Abstract	The Internet, best known by most users as the World-Wide-Web, continues to expand at an amazing pace. We propose a new infrastructure to harness the combined resources, such as CPU cycles or disk storage, and make them available to everyone interested. This infrastructure has the potential for solving parallel supercomputing applications involving thousands of cooperating components. Our approach is based on recent advances in Internet connectivity and the implementation of safe distributed computing embodied in languages such as Java. We developed a prototype of a global computing infrastructure, called SuperWeb, that consists of hosts, brokers and clients. Hosts register a fraction of their computing resources (CPU time, memory, bandwidth, disk space) with resource brokers. Client computations are then mapped by the broker onto the registered resources. We examine an economic model for trading computing resources, and discuss several technical challenges associated with such a global computing environment.
Starting Page	100
Ending Page	106
File Size	842857
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818677937
ISSN	10637133
DOI	10.1109/IPPS.1997.580858
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-04-01
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Parallel processing Java Internet Central Processing Unit Microeconomics Registers Distributed computing Power generation economics Concurrent computing Supply and demand
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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